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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Is Piedras the Next Juarez?

6 Dead 1
survivor critical and two children taken in latest incidentTexas sheriff says the border town is the new Juarez.

Piedras
Negras; Four bodies were discovered in a taxi, while the other two died in a
second incident and found in a house in
the Colonia Acoros.

Santos
Vasquez Estrada the delegate of the Attorney General of Northern Coahuila reported
that at 4:30 am the Taxi was located on the old road to Zaragoza, about a mile
from the urban are. Onboard were 4 males
and 2 females with gun shots.

In the back
seat of the taxi were found two women with gun shots while the taxi driver and
front passenger also had gun shot wounds.

He said the
taxi driver was identified as Fabian Martinez Ibarra 35 years while the other
companions were unidentified.

In the
second incident, two people died in the
Colony Acoros from stab wounds, the authority identified Josefina Puneda Tamez,
49, and Oscar Pineda Oziel Gobea 19, a
third was stabbed but survived. Gobea Ignacio Vazquez, husband of the deceased,
who is in critical condition.

It was
reported that two children ages 3 and 5 years were kidnapped but later found wandering the streets in a nearby colonia .The home that came under attack was at Tule Street # 1306 of Acoros
Cologne.

Piedras Negras has become a hot spot in the Mexican drugwar. The Mexican city shares a border with Eagle Pass Texas. Logistically sitting in a prime location at the POE into Texas in Northeastern Coahuila and connects with many major highways running through the south, west, east of Mexico feeding into Piedras and into the US. Zetas and government forces have intensified presence, complicated by the apparent growing presence of the SInaloa Cartel.

Last week both Federal Police and the Coahuila GATES agency sent additional convoys of troops to the area, focusing in Piedras Negras.

The Zetas Cartel have enjoyed a comfortable presense and control of the state of Coahuila since they split from the Golfo Cartel in 2010. Golfos, also known as CDG, can take "credit" for the creation of the violent Zetas as they recruited the group as an enforcer wing of CDG together the two groups called themselves "La Compañía".

Until the split, La Compañía controlled the state of Coahuila. After the split Zetas gained control of the majority of the state. Seemingly, with collusion from Saltillo, the media and municipalities.

It is surreal to live in a Coahuila city where everyone knows who the Zs are, where they live, where safe houses are, easy to spot halcones, and just about anyone can take a visitor to places such as staging lots filled with stolen boats, and vehicles of all types, mostly with Texas license plates. But, few speak of it, paralyzed by fear. That is changing, slowly but steadily people are beginning to speak of it with friends. But the openess of narco activity exists and has changed little.

It seems the new governor does not want to be completely married to the Zs, or perhaps wants an open marriage of sorts. and that sparked the struggle that was inevitable when a party refuses to play ball within Zetas rules.

Ruben Moriera, is the current governor, Ruben is the brother of Humberto Moreira, former governor who resigned to make a successful run for the chairmanship of the PRI party. Only to resign in disgrace when improprieties were made public of missing Coahuila funds

Much is spoken about Humberto's governorship and agreements he made with the Zetas. Violence was abound
but few spoke about the many “disappeared” or dead, including the Coahuila
press of which the Moreira’s have a large investment in newspaper and radio
outlets.Zetas have the last say of what
narco news regional newspapers run.For the killings reported,
many times more go unreported. The fact of the matter is that Coahuila has never maintained an official count of drug deaths or disappearances.Because of the lack of media coverage and official counts, estimation is the method used to tally deaths and kidnappings. The government of Mexico has concluded that Coahuila may have the most "missing" persons, a reasonable person would insist surely it is one of the top 3 or 4 states that have high numbers of kidnapped persons never to be seen again. If one looks at the Coahuila map it reflects a large land mass, but it has a small population rendering large masses of land that are vacant undeveloped and many prime locations to dump bodies. (see maps on page two)In Acuña, in one violent week while Humberto was governor, terror gripped the city, as kidnappings and killings erupted in a narco rampage. Buildings and homes burned to the ground-fire fighters were warned not to attempt to extinguish the fires, or pay with their lives-the chief of police was killed left with a narco message in the parking lot of a large candy warehouse, torched and destroyed.Though citizens witnessed the violence around the city, not a word of the violence was reported on the radio, television or Coahuila newspapers. For three days, no reporting then finally a report of the chief, but little else. Fast forward to October 2012, the night of Lalo Moreira's murder, Lalo is Humberto's son. Hours after the murder four men were killed and thrown into the Bravo, on the Acuña side of the river. One victim was not dead ,and despite being handcuffed, he managed to drift to the Del Rio side of the river where Border Patrol watching the events unfold, rescued the man and took him to the hospital. Upon his release he was kept in GEO for deportation processing. The name he gave was "Jesus Piña". A strange thing is Jesus is a dead ringer for Victor Sifueñtes- the police supervisor wanted for Lalo's murder- and when parties connected to the "Jesus" case were shown Victor's photo they made a positive ID as he being the man in the river calling himself "Jesus Piña.. Victor had disappeared directly after "finding" Lalo's corpse and was on the run for weeks. "Jesus" was deported, then Victor was apprehended in the Coahuila city of Monclova.. When he was picked up Victor's face still bore the injuries and scabbing consistent with Jesus' injuries sustained from his late night encounter in the Bravo, just hours after Lalo's killing.None of this was reported in Mexican news. However, the story of the 4 bodies dumped in the Bravo was in the Del Rio Herald, stating the bodies were dumped on the Acuna side. Four bodies and not a word written about it in Coahuila nor Mexico. It is evident that Coahuila is no better off with Rueben Moreira. Corruption is still very much alive and thriving in Coahuila.Ruben made the decision to send forces and fortify the border town of Piedras Negras. Zs did not take kindly to that action, and successfully executed a mass prison escape from the Piedras Prison of 131 inmates. When most inmates stayed close to and in the area it was obvious they were freed to defend Zeta ground.

About and hour west of Piedras lies the border town of Acuña, adjacent to Del Rio Texas. It was in this relatively peaceful city that all hell broke loose, pitting governor on governor, brothers on brother, split a powerful family, killed a nephew in retribution for the GATES killing of the nephew of Miguel Treviño aka Z40 leader of the Zetas.
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Humberto left stands next to his brother Ruben

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Lalo Moreira

In early October in a conflict with GATES 4 gunmen were killed in Piedras Negras.
One of the dead gunmen was the nephew of Miguel Trevino, his name; Alejandro Treviño Chavez. This incensed Z40 who ordered a hit on one of the Moreira family members.

Banners began appearing in the region almost immediately. This was confirmed
by Carlos younger brother Ruben and Humberto. The banners warned "Family for Family" and were signed Z40. Jose Eduardo Moreira was the most vulnerable. He was the son of Humberto and known as "Lalo". Lalo lived in Acuña with his wife and infant son, he was 25 years old.

His dead body was found in his truck 24 hours after Z40s nephew was killed in Piedras.

The absence of Ruben at Lalo's funeral brought to light the severity of the estrangement of the once close brothers. Followed by accusations by the young widow holding the governor culpable in the death of her husband.

Stating that Ruben knew of the warnings and did nothing to protect Lalo, even though he knew he was defenseless as one month prior Lalo's armor truck and state police body guards were taken from him with the governors order for the municipal police to fill the roll of body guards. Ironic, as it was the police chief, and supervisor on duty that were two of the 6 men suspected of Lalo's murder, the chief has already confessed to the killing.

If the relationship between the two governors ever had a chance in hell of mending after that, the fate was sealed when Ruben said it was El Lazca, the other premier leader of the Zetas at the time of Lalo's death, as the one who ordered the Lalo's murder. Convenient, since Lazcano is now deceased. Ruben announced the "case closed".No one believed the governor's announcement and the action incensed the Humberto Moreira family further. This time Lalo's younger brother took to Twitter to accuse his uncle Ruben of being a liar.

Blame the dead guy-an often use tactic to close cases

In the weeks that followed, police and army presence increased in Acuña and Piedras, Zetas retreated from Acuña seemingly to concentrate on Piedras. Meanwhile as this heavy deployment in to the area by federal and state forces with the intent to fight off the Zetas and maintain peace, rumors of CDS presense growing both in Acuña and Piedras. The rumors have been persistent.

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Two weeks ago narcomantas -banners- began flooding Coahuila. In the banners they accuse two men of being free to conduct narco business with the blessing of the federal police in Piedras. The men are identified as member of the Golfo cartel. Sinaloa and Golfo have an alliance. So if this is all true, and it appears so, what he have is a war zone with federal and state forces, and three cartels. Is it any wonder if some are suggesting that Piedras is the new Juarez?

Take a look at the Brewster County Sheriff's office entry on their FB page this week-though it says Acuña, I am certain it is meant to read "Piedras Negras". The men in the photo were the accused killers of Lalo upon the transfer to the Acuña prison from Saltillo this past week. The one on the left is Victor Sifueñtes, the police supervisor who "found" the body, and suspected of his murder.

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The elements are in place for Piedras and Acuña to become the hotbed of the drugwar violence. Much will depend on the Peña administration taking over in December. He has contradictions in explaining his vague "plan". It would be a waste of over 100K drugwar deaths if lessons were not learned and taken into the new administration.

There were many lessons available from the Juarez tragedy. Lets hope they are applicable in the strategy of Piedras Negras and other hot spots so we will never reach a point of being able to declare a city as having "8 Murders a Day". Let's hope those deaths were not completely in vain.

I have written about President Calderon, sometimes not in a favorable light, but I ever thought he was not brave, nor honorable, nor the one and only hope Mexico has.

His downfall was perhaps his stubbornness, and inability to adapt, sticking with plans that fail without making changes.

It is unfair to speak of him as the President of the Dead. No matter who was in office the numbers would have escalated, because the playing field has changed.

Many groups, gangs and smaller cartels have evolved, all wanting a piece of the plaza. There are more players, more players result in more deaths. One can easily argue a case that Calderon kept the number down from what it would have been.

But he was the first, and the first is seldom the best. However, if I am to be honest he was the best that Mexico ever voted into office. No doubt in my mind about that.

MAPS:

(click any image to enlarge)

Maps are valuable in assesing the importance of Coahuila to drug traffickers. Major highways initiating from the southern border directly connecting into the "drug" states connect eventually into Coahuila, onto the 57 hwy and on to Piedras or with a veering west into Acuña, both cities sit on the Mexican side of the border with international bridges being the only separation for the United States. Once into Texas, the 90 or 35 hwy leads into one of the most important drug hubs in the United States, San Antonio, Texas. The last map depicts the highway interections from San Antoino to all other parts of the US.

For an interactive map link here. Click on any tile to see roads and cities

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Coahuila surrounded by:Chih, Dgo, Zaca, SLP and N. Leon

West to east north to south major hwy lead to Piedras and Acuna

Sources used to write the article of the 6 killed: Vanguardia, 24 Horas, Twitter

Sources for the remainder of the post:
I used my previous BB Posts, and my Coahuila sleuthing partner TexPatMex

Well written.. And something to think about, but hasnt the fighting calmed down quite a bit in the past few weeks? Also- I see so many articles about calderon, but I never see anything about which cartel he was possibly involved in, or if he stayed independent from all of it (unless I overlooked that bit of info in a story).. Do you have any info on that?

No it's not how the article say on the map. It's not a good crossing. It's a good place for the bosses to hide. Remember the zetas used to own this place and to get to this place the enemies had to enter a lot of cities that was control by zetas and had alot of look outs by ranches so before it was hard to get to get them in piedras. And we're protected by the moriera family

Here comes CDG and Chapo tick tock 40 run zz run HAHA. In 12 months Coahuila, Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo will be filled with CDG, CDS and CT's. The zz that aren't killed will jump ship. In 24 months zetas will resemble what the Juarez Cartel is now, made up of only die hards with no desire to live. All the pressure will force 40 to move around a lot more than usual. He will not be captured so they'll kill him but then again I doubt his heart. Either way his political allies have grown tired of him and his days of mass killings and terrorizing the citizens of Mexico are just about up. Stopping cartels and trafficking in general is not a feasible mindset. Stopping the zz and the torture, robbery, extortion and murder is. When the zz are exterminated, AND THEY WILL BE EXTERMINATED regardless if it takes a few years or not, the crime rates will go back to normal, tourism will shoot up and finally there will be light, nachos, tequilla and margaritas at the end of the tunnel. Then we can all scream Viva Mexico. Tell them ElCoChiLoco said so :)

Ja ja ja seems like you have it all figured out cochiloco or should i say walter mercado predicting the future .. Your a joke.it obvious your a cds cheerleader.the truth is that nobody knows whats coming.solo lo que se es que mal llerba no muere

Outstanding story Chivis! I knew none of this valuable information. Let us all pray that the lessons learned from Juarez are heeded. I have to have hope that Mexico will once again become a country of peace for it's people. Thank you for the insight Chivis.

You all flappin your gums saying contradictory shit,that tells us,most are supporting their various teams like fans of fuckin Scarface.Anyway,good story Chivis,been wantin to know if the motherfucker in the mantas was El Tukan?He used to be Z.It makes it seem,,if he can run around like this,CDG must have bodies over there,and why would CDS be wantin to kill his ass,as some sayin?Its internecine war baby.

I said it since day one that tukan was a zeta that went to cdg , so y the fuck would cds want kill him if hes the one thats takin out the zetas in p.n....it pisses me off when muthafuckers on here run they mouth when they dont even got their facts straight

Chivis please post of the comandante maton of the zetas that got killed in Nuevo Laredo . If you remember the manta threatening all the comandantes in Nuevo Laredo most of all had been killed they are only missing el fer but I heard he ran

Que viva president Felipe Calderon I think he did the right thing about fighting organized crime. It was a difficult task and I know he made many mistakes but no one is perfect even the best and better trained army in the world made many mistakes in Iraq.

This will be a war between the Federal Police and the Military versus The State Police and Local Police. It is not a hero Military marching in to clean up anything. It is an attempt of criminal military and federal police to slice another piece of the pie before they lose ground to the new party. This is a fairly small town so it should not be as difficult as Juarez. These federal criminals take everything from the locals. They rape the women and young girl, take cars, furniture, whatever they want with no consequences. They did it in Juarez for years. They are even more evil than the Z. For all those cheerleaders rooting for Chapo, He has started every war in Mexico, destroyed TJ, Juarez, every city along the Mexican border, Sinaloa, and many other places with his greed. In every single case, he has had the support of President Calderon. How much wealth did Calderon accrue by protecting this piece of shit criminal. It was all about the money and Calderon is the worst hit and run president yet. According to Bowden in Down by the River, President Salinas' brother was prosecuted for laundering $600.000.000 in one incident through City Bank Chicago going to his Swiss Bank account. Calderon is "The Death President" that care nothing about the suffering of Mexico. He is the worst criminal in Mexico and this will all come out after he leaves office and again Mexico has been ripped off. He put Mexico up for sale to the largest bidder, El Chapo, then protected him for six years.

Poor little zeta cheerleaders on here crying is simple PRICELESS BAHAHA!!!! I love it you guys are the best my side is hurting from laughing at how your ugly faces must be curled up. zetas have been in Coahuila since CDG placed them there to reinforce that area way back in their beginning. OWNED that area since then......your stupid comment doesn't deserve a reply. z42 was almost captured in PN in 2001 I think it was. Zetas have had trouble paying their workers for a long time that's why most get high they pay them with powder....junkies BAHAHA truth hurts.

I agree that Calderon is the most honerable, brave, and non-corrupt that Mexico has had the priviledge to lead their country. He had no part in the 70+ years of PRI connected smuggling, kidnapping, public fund pilfering, etc. This said, he gave his all to help bring Mexico from a 2nd world country to a 1st world nation where citizens are not victims of the elite and corrupt. God bless Presidente Calderon and the light he has brought to the incestuous corruption that has thrived since the PRI took control.

To me, it's no coincidence that El Lazca was killed just days after the ex-governor's son was killed by the Z. Trevino just couldn't accept that his nephew got killed for being a badass, was foolish to take revenge. Does Z-40 think he can kill others, but no one can kill his own??? I think they lost sight of the primary goal, which is to make money, not take revenge. When it just becomes a cycle of revenge-vendettas, everyone looses.

doubt chapo wants piedras negras right now maybe later he doesnt want to heat up any plaza right now with pena nieto coming in theres a contract with el pri dont want to fuck that up.and it wont be chapo fighting it will be el guero palma when he gets out in a couple of years hes gonna want that plaza back the next war that looms will be beltran leyva internal fight between el tortillero vs el h2 it will take place in tepic nayarit

November 26, 2012 2:46 AMGuey you dont know the half of that shit,this one cochiloco is the biggest CDS pump out here.Some say he might even be chaplips illegitimate daughter?He goes lookin for anyone who says anythin wrong about chaplips?He got it real bad,keep it on the down low el colostomy.Anyway chaplips is great?

Hey wanna be shit talker..... its called a fucking space bar. Use it. It will help your sorry ass attempts at being a shit talker, kid. Otherwise you look foolish only trying to be smart. Who the fuck are you to say all cartels are bad for Mexico?

On Sunday in Guerrero coahuila the town got infested with la Marina having two big black birds landing in the town and one small plane flying around. Capturing 4 and killing at least 3 in that same town. On another note they just found more mantas in piedras negras signed CDG. 11/26/12. 11:25pm.

True bout the mantas at the bottom its signed by three people i just remember two of the ?/tuc/21 ill put up the message after i get off....n damn like i said in the very beginning before yall even heard bout el tucan on here i said cdg

@5:40am What you dont like being dead?(sarcasm).Dude this is why i put the blame on Calderon,the deaths kept rising and he kept persisting without any change of strategy....it fucking hurts me when is see the 60k+ casualty rate,its fucking too high!!! He failed in protecting the innocents.(and dont try to tell me there aint any innocents in the 60k+ either)

This information I' give have solve the puzzle to the unknown Alejandro Treviño Chavez actually the nephew of Z40 I' NEVER had an idea about this guy being a ZETA because he was the Bodyguard of Eagle Pass City public works HECTOR CHAVEZ son ? aka "El Toro" this people would gather every week at the Bodega bar in Piedras Negras downtown, I' noticed that this guys had very powerful influence over the Bodega Bar that they made private Narco Parties on the backyard of the Bodega Bar I' also saw one Saturday when they celebrated the Death of the Piedras Negras Police Head chief Arturo Ibarra Navarro 3 years ago.... This is increible Eagle Pass politician Hector Chavez was very protected by his Zeta son ? Chavez aka "El Toro" and his bodyguard Alejandro Treviño Morales only God Allmighty protected me from getting kidnapped or shot by this coldblooded killers but this information is 100% True I' quit going to that Bodega Bar for 2 years ago since this Sicarios have took control over that Cantina the Bodega Bar located in 1 block after the front on the Clinica Mexico hospital.

The REAL problem in Piedras Negras is that the GATES(Chapo Guzman Military Regiment) have the Order from Mexico President Felipe Calderon to "Shoot and Kill" everyone that is related to the ZETA cartel including Los Halcones since the arrival of The GATES the shooting battles have errupted it seems evident how the Mexican Government in PAN and PRI is interested in protecting and covering up the SINALOA CARTEL because they are very well supported Financially by the Sinaloa Cartel to gain political strategy in the war against Killer allied Organized Crime Cartels LOS ZETAS and the BELTRAN LEYVA Cartel, The GATES were sent to Piedras Negras to Execute and Kill the armed Escaped convicts that were liberated by the ZETA Corrupted Associates including the remaining of Los ZETA in Piedras Negras to regain control over the Piedras Negras plaza this hightly trained agents are said to be the sent People of El Chapo Guzman to take control over COAHUILA State permanently, The GATES in Piedras Negras are NOT Protecting the Security of the Civilians and Tourists they are Fighting over the Plaza of Piedras Negras against the ZETA Cartel and anybody that is related to the ZETAS including any corrupted Municipal Police and Halcones that aid the Zetas in information from their colaborated espionage soon the ZETAS cartel will be OUT of Coahuila permanently and out of power because Chapo Guzman people is coming to clean house.

November 29, 2012 6:15 PM If what you are saying is true,what has changed all of a sudden?Why would the Z all of a sudden weaken so much?Lazcanos death is a blow,but surely all the people are still in place?Or can it be a matter of killing 30 to 50 people and you have cleaned a place?What you are saying seems to have a bit of truth,the Z seemed to be having problems before Lazcas death,and maybe Lazcas death was actually part of this?I don't believe they just came across him in the middle of no-where?As for the Z can they weaken as quickly as you sayin?

Piedras Negras, Coahuila- The ZETAS arrived in Piedras Negras when they still were incoporated to CARTEL DEL GOLFO CDG they arrived in Piedras Negras to took control over the Plaza(Organized Crime Narcomenudeo sectars and Corrupted Police support) that once belonged to El Señor de los Cielos Cartel and mostly all of the Narcos from the 90's like Vicente La Fuente Huereca that was ambused by the ZETA military gunmen and Snippers , The ZETAS took control over the Piedras Negras Plaza in the year 2003 and ever since they haven't been attacked or confronted like The GATES, back then Los ZETAS they have Dominated or rendered every Police Estatal and Municipal under their influence Power alliance Piedras Negras and Acuña Plaza was controled by The ZETAS Organization in mid 2003 they had the Piedras Negras, Coahuila alcalde Jesus Mario Flores threatened back then everyone witness sightings of ZETA gunmen on daylight armed and dangerous in Piedras Negras downtown calle Zaragosa NOBODY dared to speak to them or confront them they had ALL the Authority on their hands to Shoot and Kill anybody that they wanted or even practice target gun shots by shooting whoever steps on their way and the local Police were on their Side because they were already Corrupted before the ZETAS took control over the Piedras Negras plaza, When President Vicente Fox presidency was over in January 2007 when Felipe H. Calderon took control over Mexico when he Declared WAR against Organized Crime Cartels in 2007 the ZETAS became more aggressive and dangerous as seen in Nuevo Laredo and into the State of Coahuila during the Humberto Moreida State Governor term between 2003-2008.